English Diarist Quotes

Dorothy Wordsworth

Violet Trefusis

This great bully of a universe overwhelms me. The stars make me cower. I am intimidated by the immensity surrounding my own littleness.

W. N. P. Barbellion

I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.

Dorothy Wordsworth

Across my life only one word will be written: "waste" - waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise.

Violet Trefusis

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.

E. M. Delafield

Our diversion was dancing (or jumping about) without a violin or any music, singing of foolish and bawdy healths and more such-like stupidity, and drinking all the time as fast as could be poured down; and the parson of the parish was one amongst the mixed multitude, all the time.

This day I bestowed too much time in the garden, and thereby was worse able to perform spiritual duties.